These are very nice word images, M-J, no doubt about it.
But I fear TDP has done me a huge disservice: this means I’m going to be bloody swamped with poetry for the next however long.
Happily yours is the first, so I’m receptive to it. 🙂

No, it’s not cold yet. I’m going to enjoy the beautiful fall days and hope MTM’s mom is wrong…although that is what I’ve been hearing. Oh well, with six pairs of long underwear, I can suffer through. 😉